This series brings together the most significant works in Business, Economics and Finance by Italian authors that have been selected by the Giappichelli publishing house. It features cutting-edge research, addressing all of the major issues across a wide range of individual disciplines, helping to define and advance the field.
By Josanco Floreani, Enrico Geretto, Maurizio Polato, Giulio Velliscig
January 29, 2024
While there is a vast amount of literature examining firm’s networks from an industrial organization perspective, the financial implications of networking remain underexplored. This book fills this gap, by investigating the phenomenon of business networks in the context of management and governance...
By Bernardino Quattrociocchi, Mario Calabrese, Francesca Iandolo, Francesco Mercuri
January 29, 2024
The so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution has prompted companies to adapt to a new business paradigm based on digital interconnection and the ability to respond quickly to the needs of consumers and users. These conditions are closely related to the advent of digital technologies that enable the ...
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By Franca Cantoni, Edoardo Favari
January 29, 2024
Megaprojects, also referred to in the literature as Large Engineering Projects or Major Projects, are generally defined as large-scale investment initiatives worth 1b€/$ or more and, facing similar problems independent of the country where they are implemented and the industry they belong to. The ...
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By Cristiano Busco, Costanza Consolandi, Irma Malafronte, Fabrizio Sammarco, Elisabetta Scognamiglio
November 15, 2023
The Impact of Organizations: Measurement, Management and Corporate Reporting contributes to the growing debate on the importance of measuring, managing, and reporting organizations’ impact in the interest of companies, stakeholders, and policymakers. Through theoretical analysis, data analysis, ...
By Anna Minà, Giovanni Battista Dagnino
September 25, 2023
This book disentangles the foundations of coopetition (i.e., concurrent competition and cooperation) by exploring in-depth the intellectual legacy of Eastern and Western perspectives. In particular, it detects the foundations of coopetition in three Chinese streams of thought; Confucianism, Taoism,...
By Alberto Gabriele, Elias Jabbour
September 25, 2023
Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the fore. Capitalism is still dominant worldwide, although its hegemony is no longer undisputed, and humankind is now faced ...
By Brad Sayer, John Dumay, James Guthrie, Laura Corazza
June 08, 2023
Drawing back on the ever-evolving stakeholder management theory, this book responds to calls for more empirical research into the managerial sense making of the stakeholder concept. The book explores how managers make sense of stakeholder management, especially in complex and challenging business ...
By Luigi Cantone, Pierpaolo Testa, Giuseppe Fabio Cantone
May 22, 2023
Decision-making on outsourcing new product development (especially innovation projects), such as engaging and managing the supply chain, is far from easy. It may involve addressing strategic and operational risks that might cause longer development times and increase innovations costs. It is, ...
By Pietro De Giovanni, Pierroberto Folgiero
March 10, 2023
This book illustrates two approaches for firms to shape successful circular strategies, namely, the Circular Economy and Circular Districts. The former considers firms’ challenges when turning theoretical circular models into practice. Thus, it discusses the opportunities and difficulties in ...
By Roberta Troisi
December 30, 2022
This book investigates the relationship between the firm and the territory, emphasizing the micro-organizational dimension and the interactions between actors at territorial levels. First, the book examines the particular features of the firm considering three key factors - structural design, ...
By Lucia Marchegiani
September 26, 2022
Knowledge capital is at the core of the socio-economic global system. Profit and not-for profit firms, institutions, and organizations, in general, face unique opportunities and threats related to knowledge management. Digital technologies and digital transformation offer a wide array of ...
By Fabrizio Granà
May 30, 2022
This book explores the role of accounting and reporting practices, such as corporate and integrated reports, as organizations attempt to represent sustainability. By relying upon the case of a large international oil and gas company and its recent development of integrated reporting, this book ...